A naturalized Cuban-American woman in Miami is expected to lose her U.S. citizenship after a federal jury found she lied on an application form about her criminal history defrauding the nation’s healthcare system for the elderly.
Tania Rosa Rodriguez, 57, was found guilty last week of fraudulently obtaining her citizenship in 2018 when she failed to disclose on the naturalization application that her pharmacy billed Medicare for prescription drugs that many patients didn’t order between 2015 and 2019.
In 2020, Rodriguez pleaded guilty to healthcare fraud, was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay back $1.45 million to Medicare. Now Rodriguez faces up to 10 years in prison at her sentencing in late October after the federal jury in Miami found her guilty of unlawful procurement of citizenship. After her sentencing, Rodriguez could face prison time, denaturalization and deportation…